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'About 1,500 people have gathered in Glasgow for a rally against terrorism, organised by Mosques and Islamic groups. It comes a week after a car burst into flames after being driven into the terminal building at Glasgow Airport. Organisers said: "The eyes of the world will be on a Scotland sending out the message that all our communities are united against terrorism." Police also said thousands took part in the city's County Grand Orange Parade. Orange Lodge parades took place across the city, before marchers joined the main procession at Blythswood Square. Meanwhile, the "Scotland United Against Terror" event was...

THE BRITISH State has come under severe criticism following the Forest Gate raid for its intelligence failures in the fight against terrorism. But the biggest failure of all in the battle against Islamist extremism has gone practically unnoticed. Tony Blair has acknowledged that the fight against Islamist terrorism cannot be restricted to a police action against isolated individuals or small groups. Last summer he spelt out that a much broader effort is required to tackle, at root, the ideology of Islamism that has bewitched so many minds. But in the struggle against extremism the British State has failed to tackle...

PARIS (AP) - Ten nights of urban unrest that brought thousands of arson attacks on cars, nursery schools and other targets from the Mediterranean to the German border reached Paris where at least 28 cars were burned overnight in the French capital, government officials said Sunday. Police found a gasoline bomb-making factory in a southern suburb of the city, with more than 100 bottles, gallons of fuel and hoods for hiding rioters' faces, a senior Justice Ministry official said Sunday.The discovery, Huet said, shows that gasoline bombs being used by rioters "are not being improvised by kids in their bathrooms....